Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library will be built on the last large piece of undeveloped real estate in Harvard Square, the MBTA's Bennett St. repair yards, which will be relocated. Once completed, the Library is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of tourists a year. And the City administration is now talking seriously about plans for redeveloping other parts of Harvard Square...
...President has proposed a replacement of the city's three-man Board of Commissioners with a single commissioner and a nine-man council. The proposal would not give Washington citizens the right to even their own city government, but it would at least centralize authority and attract a competent commissioner...
...fails in its practical objective of significantly increasing pressure on the government to end the war in some unmilitary manner, it will have had the effect of carrying on a process that has been evident throughout the past year. Just as the Harvard chapter of SDS was able to attract a surprisingly large number of members this year because of the dearth of any other serious anti-war groups in Cambridge, so too should Vietnam Summer serve the purpose of involving moderate and formerly reluctant students with more radical forms of anti-war political protest. It will happen even more...
Holcey Hip. The peculiar appeal of the Smothers is that they pull off these bum mots with such a deceptive air of wide-eyed innocence that the cornier the material, the louder the laughs. A more apt name for them would be the Mothers' Brothers. "We attract the kind of fans that want to mother us," says Dick, 28. "We're so college-looking and clean-cut," says Tom, 30. "The American Legion likes us and so does the left wing." And so does every wing of the younger generation. The boys have the jug-eared look...
This thesis is not wholly new, and thus it might attract less attention if this were not a Galbraith book. He wrote one of the two or three most quoted books on economics in the past decade, The Affluent Society, and he considers that to have been only a prelude to this more comprehensive work. Ever since he broadcast chunks of it in six widely discussed lectures on the BBC late last year (TIME, Jan. 6), it has been awaited by his fans on Capitol Hill and beyond...